The Eternal Breakfast Debate in a New Place

[muzzer]

Yes that faux 'of the people' is a bit 6th form. Innit. "...and on yer bike"

[french frank]

Brief look at Wedneday's prog shows that the amount of chat to music has slightly increased. I made it 33 minutes out of 150 minutes, rather than 30 minutes which it's been on every other occasion I've checked. The main culprit was that there were 24 pieces (not 23 as I said - Schubert symph movt was omitted). Apart from the odd segue, every time the music stops there is a necessity/opportunity for the presenter to read out something - on this occasion not excluding Wikipedia.

The music was overwhelmingly 19th-early 20th c.

Baroque: JSBach, M Cazzati, Porpora
Classical: Schubert, Haydn, Mozart
Born 1st half 19th c: Chopin, Schumann, Brahms, Chabrier, Dvořák
Born 2nd half 19th c: Wolf, Albéniz, Debussy, Nielsen, Beach, Kreisler, Falla, WD Browne, Weinberger, Gershwin
Born 20th: Tippett, Wirén, Glass

From formal works in movements (symphony, concerto &c) 4 single movements: Schumann (PQuin), Glass (SQ), Haydn and Schubert (symphs)

Longest: Bach 9'31" Shortest: Beach 1'22" Av, c 4'50"

Five trails/BBC announcements: CotW (DM), InTu (SK on King Crimson), Essay (on Orson Welles), BBC Music (Young Chorister, YMotY) all before the news/weather break; and EssCl 15 mins before its start (SW, guest Michel Roux but not sure that he was mentioned. Spooky music).

The 5 listener requests, emails, resulted in: Schwanda the Bagpiper, WD Browne 2 Dances, Tippett spiritual from AChooT (plugging amateur concert in Leamington Spa), Gershwin AnAminPar (listener reminiscence), Chopin Waltz (birthday request).

[Emphasis on dance was for IntDanceDay: Schwanda the Bagpiper has entered the Breakfast Music Box as 'Music to Dance to].

[Velvet Munchkin]

My first post. I loathe Breakfast. I hate patronising silly girl voices iike 'Clemmie' BH. I can't bear phone-in's, excessive trailers, being told I'm listening 'online and on digital' blah-blah. The whole thing is MORONIC. I'd have liked to spend a bit more time writing something classier but I'm too cross.

[Roehre]

My first post. I loathe Breakfast. I hate patronising silly girl voices iike 'Clemmie' BH. I can't bear phone-in's, excessive trailers, being told I'm listening 'online and on digital' blah-blah. The whole thing is MORONIC. I'd have liked to spend a bit more time writing something classier but I'm too cross.

Welcome VM , and join the club "enjoying" breakfast

[alycidon]

My first post. I loathe Breakfast. I hate patronising silly girl voices iike 'Clemmie' BH. I can't bear phone-in's, excessive trailers, being told I'm listening 'online and on digital' blah-blah. The whole thing is MORONIC. I'd have liked to spend a bit more time writing something classier but I'm too cross.

Hmm! Not bad for a first post, and bang on the nail too! And amen to all you say.

[mercia]

let us not exaggerate. The "phone-ins" (one 60-second call per day) have finished.

[Black Swan]

My first post. I loathe Breakfast. I hate patronising silly girl voices iike 'Clemmie' BH. I can't bear phone-in's, excessive trailers, being told I'm listening 'online and on digital' blah-blah. The whole thing is MORONIC. I'd have liked to spend a bit more time writing something classier but I'm too cross.

No apologies, necessary. I couldn't agree with you more...

[Stanfordian]

My first post. I loathe Breakfast. I hate patronising silly girl voices iike 'Clemmie' BH. I can't bear phone-in's, excessive trailers, being told I'm listening 'online and on digital' blah-blah. The whole thing is MORONIC. I'd have liked to spend a bit more time writing something classier but I'm too cross.

Velvet Munchkin,

Amen to all that. The programme that follows during the week is toe-cringing at times. For example Sarah Walker is out of her depth especially when she is talking with those celebrities.

[Don Petter]

The programme that follows oduring the week is toe-cringing at times.

Well chosen words, almost right.

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

Welcome to the forum, VM. I agree with all of your posts so far.

[Velvet Munchkin]

Thank you for my welcome. I increasingly resort to streaming Through the Night or anything presented by Donald Macleod rather than have that vacuous voice (CBH) penetrate the inner ear at the start of the day. I can’t pin-point just why she’s so utterly nauseous. Such a confected, pasteurised delivery and hard to listen to because she’s so often emoting. Those little inflexions of ‘feeling’ in her sentences. (Petroc whats-his-face isn’t a great deal better.) If I do mistakenly stray onto CBH-PT ‘Breakfast' I always experience a prompter and fuller-than-normal early-am bowel movement. The point, for me, there’s nowhere else to go, radio-wise.

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

The point, for me, there’s nowhere else to go, radio-wise.

...which is why the BBC should stop trying to copy CFM.

[french frank]

let us not exaggerate. The "phone-ins" (one 60-second call per day) have finished.

Some good sense shown by M. le Directeur there. But let's not underestimate the irritant value of one 45-second phone-in: when it's on, it's on [or was, in this case]. Damage is done very quickly (or, of course, not at all in the case of less sentient beings ).

[antongould]

Lots of chat today and poetry and even people under 25 who I'm not sure we like.......

[french frank]

Lots of chat today and poetry and even people under 25 who I'm not sure we like.......

Interesting idea. I'm not sure that the programmes-as-usual Days really work. The idea begins to take over from the programme and it can all seem a bit forced. Probably trying to cram too much in - in order to fill the whole day?